Re: Proposal for license change

From: Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 21:06:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Proposal for license change
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Joye" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for license change


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:31 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:

1, 2, 3. Zend?


Zend does not own PHP. And the waste majority of contributors do not
even work for Zend.


4, 5. GPL compatibility is for users to use PHP in a GPL-licensed project, not for PHP developers to include GPL-licensed code in their PHP project.


Well, even for the latter there are issues. Let alone the v3 and *GPL
licenses, which create even more confusions.


6. [email protected] may license the mark unconditionally for licensees to achieve the same effect as "removing the clause". The mark license would be for copyright, so there would be no conflict with the trademark ("PHP®").


And how do you finance it? World wild?
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I'd like to respond to question of who owns PHP with some thoughts that I trust are germane to the topic.

Why does the PHP project continue to be without any kind of corporate sponsorship in contrast to the opensource project Ubuntu which is backed by Canonical?  If the PHP project were to have a company supporting it, wouldn't it be better protected? And, with a company backing it wouldn't the issue of acquiring a trademark then be feasible?

-- Sharon

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